Highlights: President Obama's Berlin Speech

6/19/2013 11:11AM

In a wide-ranging foreign-policy speech in Berlin, President Obama called for negotiations with Russia aimed at ending the two nations' Cold War military posture and reducing the arsenal of nuclear arms by up to one-third. Watch highlights here.

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